[-] howrar@lemmy.ca 18 points 3 hours ago

Turns out Benjamin Franklin had it right, and it was this time traveler that caused him to flip it to the wrong direction.

[-] howrar@lemmy.ca 11 points 2 days ago

I think what you're seeing is that there are two groups of people interpreting it in two different ways:

  • Change this one thing and everyone will be better off for it.
  • An ideal world would have this feature.
[-] howrar@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 days ago

Cloud housing when?

[-] howrar@lemmy.ca 5 points 4 days ago

Some are less unethical than others.

[-] howrar@lemmy.ca 4 points 4 days ago

No /s

This is a great variant to regular pizza when you happen to have the ingredients on hand. I do it all the time.

[-] howrar@lemmy.ca 4 points 6 days ago

So when you say "I believe in objective morality", you mean that you believe morality should be objective, not that it is objective. I'm inclined to agree because that would certainly simplify life a lot, but unfortunately, you can't just make morality objective any more than you can make gravity not exist. It is what it is, and we have to figure out a way to work with what we have.

[-] howrar@lemmy.ca 8 points 6 days ago

So morality is relative in a society that doesn't have a proper moral framework?

[-] howrar@lemmy.ca 7 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

I think you missed the "indirect" part. This isn't someone going around stabbing people. It's someone who goes obstructing people from getting medication or medical treatment that they need, or from acquiring food, or someone who indiscriminately gets people fired from their jobs and put on the streets where they'll die a slow death.

Regarding solitary confinement: As an individual, you don't have the power to detain someone in that manner. But you do have the power to kill.

[-] howrar@lemmy.ca 9 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Any honest conversation about a situation will end up with two people, happily or not, having to admit there's one path more moral than others

You don't say that they agree on which path is more moral than the other, but I'm assuming that's what you mean. But also, no, that doesn't happen. In an honest conversation where you disagree on morals, you just learn that you both have different values.

There are some things that more people are likely to agree on, like your example about stealing a towel from a hotel. But there are also many that people vehemently disagree on. For example, is it morally right to kill someone who has (and will continue to) indirectly kill many of other people?

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IPF Rule changes (Jan 2026) (www.powerlifting.sport)
submitted 4 weeks ago by howrar@lemmy.ca to c/fitness@lemmy.world

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/58096221

Changes are highlighted in red.

Most notably, there seems to be three rule changes relating to technique:

  • Squat: Must use a full grip. Thumbless grip is no longer permitted. There's also a minimum height for bar position now.
  • Bench press: No sink-and-press
  • Deadlift: Clarifications on what it means to lock out with your shoulders back.
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submitted 4 months ago by howrar@lemmy.ca to c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.ca

Say it's 25C outside and 30C indoors. I want to bring the indoor temp down to 25C, but opening all the windows barely makes a dent. Does it make sense to have the AC turned on and set to 25C while I have the windows open? Or should I be closing them anyway?

[-] howrar@lemmy.ca 95 points 5 months ago

The effect may be considerable in a few centuries

Hahahaha

ha

:c

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submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by howrar@lemmy.ca to c/boostforlemmy@lemmy.world

Version 1.0.16

This just started yesterday. Every time I switch screens (e.g. opening/closing comments or viewing a different community), The screen changes, it swipes down to reveal the old screen, then switches back to the new screen. It's very disorienting. Anyone else or just me?

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submitted 1 year ago by howrar@lemmy.ca to c/canada@lemmy.ca

Apparently we can register as a liberal to vote in the upcoming leadership race. What does it mean if I register? What do I gain (besides the aforementioned voting) and does it place any kind of restrictions on me (e.g. am I prevented from doing the same with a different party)?

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submitted 1 year ago by howrar@lemmy.ca to c/fitness@lemmy.world

This is a video about Jorn Trommelen's recent paper: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38118410/

The gist of it is that they compared 25g protein meals vs 100g protein meals, and while you do use less of it for muscle protein synthesis at that quantity, it's a very minor difference. So the old adage still holds: Protein quantity is much more important than timing.

While we're at it, I'd also like to share an older but very comprehensive overview of protein intake by the same author: https://www.strongerbyscience.com/athlete-protein-intake/

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Following up on another question about open source funding, how does it usually work when there is funding to pay for the dev's work, then someone new joins in and makes significant contributions? Does the original dev still keep everything? Do you split the funds between the devs? If so, how do you decide how much each person gets? Are there examples of projects where something like this has happened?

[-] howrar@lemmy.ca 155 points 1 year ago

Academic Authors: $0

FAKE NEWS

This should be in the negatives. We have to pay to get papers published in these traditional journals.

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I suspect this is a problem with posts that have extremely long bodies like this one: https://slrpnk.net/comment/8035803

I'm trying to scroll down to the top first comment and inevitably overshoot. When I i try to scroll back up, it suddenly jumps back to the middle of the OP's body.

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submitted 2 years ago by howrar@lemmy.ca to c/funny@sh.itjust.works
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submitted 2 years ago by howrar@lemmy.ca to c/dadsplain@lemmy.ca

I was looking up when babies can safely start eating untoasted bread and one of the images led me to this website that sells... stuff? Are they selling me the question? Who knows.

Then if you scroll down to the related products, you can buy a basketball club for $30, down from $15!

I'm guessing this is some phishing website looking to steal credit cards. I also still haven't found an answer to my original question.

[-] howrar@lemmy.ca 99 points 2 years ago

I searched through Lemmy posts with that word. Half of them have people asking the exact same question, and based on the answers, I'm going to conclude that no one knows.

One guess that seems plausible is that it's an AI hallucinated word that's showing up a lot because they're using AI to generate the captions.

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Is it possible for posts to show the domain (TLD and SLD) of link posts?

Use case: I don't want to watch videos so I want to avoid clicking YouTube links. I would like to know that they are YouTube videos without having my phone spend the next minute trying to open YouTube.

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submitted 2 years ago by howrar@lemmy.ca to c/lemmy411@lemmy.ca

Is there a community meant for anything that doesn't currently fit into the existing communities?

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